The only argument I can give in defence of the Japanese names is that if Gardevoir was localised as SirKnight, I'm sure we wouldn't have half the R34 of her we have now.

HA that never stopped them perverts.

IDK. Sir is seen by some as a gender neutral term, and knight definitely is...

I've never seen sir used gender neutrally before.---Zangoose is the one good Pokemon that came after Gen 1, everything else about Gen 3, as well as gens 2, 4, 5 and 6 is awful. I do not like Gen 3, just Zangoose.